Type 1 Sentences
These sentences are most important and are what teachers love.
They:
create ARGUMENT
are opinionated
explain and offer ideas
are "your take on the" situation
They:
create ARGUMENT
are opinionated
explain and offer ideas
are "your take on the" situation
Type 2 Sentences
SPEC sentences are specific reference to text
They:
bring the reader to the exact point
are a natural connection to type 1
pay attention to speaker, spoken to, the setting and situation
They:
bring the reader to the exact point
are a natural connection to type 1
pay attention to speaker, spoken to, the setting and situation
Type 3 Sentences
These are the use of text or quotes
Most good writers of literary argument tend to select them first and then fill opinion around them
They must be:
the ideal selection of text
copied exactly
contain all correct marks of punctuation
contain correct line or page references
Arthur’s actions to accept the GK’s challenge are foolish. He agrees to the terms of the challenge before knowing exactly what is being offered. Arthur never thinks this proposition through and instead reacts to his own hurt pride. Even the king’s court recognizes that he has made an immature decision allowing a noble life to be sacrificed. After Gawain goes to meet his fate, the court criticizes their monarch quietly:
………………………………………..---- his head
Lopped off by an elf, and only for pride.
What king has ever allowed such games,
Playing such stupid sport at Christmas!. (680-683)
The king’s people condemn his rash choice to allow the sacrifice of Gawain, making it a powerful indictment. A court typically doesn’t criticize its monarch’s decisions. “Such stupid sport” is unworthy of a respected, noble king. This serves as a reminder that powerful people can make bad mistakes.
Hester Pryne’s appearance juxtaposes the harsh and somber background of Puritan Boston. When she is lead out of her dark prison her beauty is evident:
The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication. ( )
Hawthorne description of her “perfect elegance” indicates that she seems to be a rarity in these parts. Her physical description seems to informs us that she seems genteel, lady like and dignified. This luxurious description differs greatly from the bleak harshness that is Boston. The town beadle symbolizes this as he is about to summon Hester:
The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender. ( )
The beadle’s sword not only reminds the reader that this is an unforgiving society but symbolizes a tough code of conduct under which all citizens must abide.
Most good writers of literary argument tend to select them first and then fill opinion around them
They must be:
the ideal selection of text
copied exactly
contain all correct marks of punctuation
contain correct line or page references
Arthur’s actions to accept the GK’s challenge are foolish. He agrees to the terms of the challenge before knowing exactly what is being offered. Arthur never thinks this proposition through and instead reacts to his own hurt pride. Even the king’s court recognizes that he has made an immature decision allowing a noble life to be sacrificed. After Gawain goes to meet his fate, the court criticizes their monarch quietly:
………………………………………..---- his head
Lopped off by an elf, and only for pride.
What king has ever allowed such games,
Playing such stupid sport at Christmas!. (680-683)
The king’s people condemn his rash choice to allow the sacrifice of Gawain, making it a powerful indictment. A court typically doesn’t criticize its monarch’s decisions. “Such stupid sport” is unworthy of a respected, noble king. This serves as a reminder that powerful people can make bad mistakes.
Hester Pryne’s appearance juxtaposes the harsh and somber background of Puritan Boston. When she is lead out of her dark prison her beauty is evident:
The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication. ( )
Hawthorne description of her “perfect elegance” indicates that she seems to be a rarity in these parts. Her physical description seems to informs us that she seems genteel, lady like and dignified. This luxurious description differs greatly from the bleak harshness that is Boston. The town beadle symbolizes this as he is about to summon Hester:
The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender. ( )
The beadle’s sword not only reminds the reader that this is an unforgiving society but symbolizes a tough code of conduct under which all citizens must abide.